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Vast DNA Bank Pits Policing Vs. Privacy
schwit1 writes "Today a Washington Post story discusses the vast U.S. bank of genetic material it has gathered over the last few years. Already home to the genetic information of almost 3 Million Americans, the database grows by 80,000 citizens a month." From the article: "'This is the single best way to catch bad guys and keep them off the street,' said Chris Asplen, a lawyer with the Washington firm Smith Alling Lane and former executive director of the National Commission on the Future of DNA Evidence. 'When it's applied to everybody, it is fair, and frankly you wouldn't even know it was going on.'"
Don't be scared of technology, if you have been fingerprinted, this is nothing different. That is the perfect analogy. Sure, you can try and make the argument that DNA will list all of genetic faults while a fingerprint won't, but i think Gattaca is still a long way off and protections can be built into law which will prevent such genetic profiling.
Rapists leave DNA and not fingerprints. Even if someone feels like their personal privacy is being invaded, if it solves even just a handful of rape or other horrid crimes, then it's worth whatever misconceived big brother conspiracy that some will obviously believe is taking place.
time is a perception of a being's consciousness
time is your 6th sense, the wierd ones are 7+
That doesn't make any sense--the bad guys are and always have been rapists and murderers. Sure, filesharers too--they are breaking the law, whatever you may think of the law.
The occasional book reader?? Please, save us your radical hysteria.
OH YOU SHUT UP! I am a Fascist. And I am proud of it. Before you go and label anything you dont like as "facist" (you cant spell) please read up on what Fascism really is. We are totalitarian ,NOT AUTHORITARIAN. WE BELIEVE PEOPLE SHOULD HAVE RIGHTS!
Grow up please.
Fascism is the greatest political ideology ever conceived. Sorry.
He did pay up front... with His Son Jesus.